The Swedish soprano, Klara Ek,, is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She also studied at the University College of Opera, Stockholm where she worked with such luminaries as Craig Rutenberg, Roger Vignoles, Tomas Schuback, Mark Tatlow, Kerstin Meyer and Birgit Nilsson. At the Royal College of Music in London she worked with Lillian Watson.

After her outstanding debut at Royal Danish Opera in the role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in 2003, Swedish soprano Klara Ek has made several important debuts including Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte at La Monnaie under René Jacobs, La Musica and Proserpina in L'Orfeo at Stuttgart Opera. On stage, her roles have included Susanna and Pamina at Staatstheater Stuttgart where she worked with conductors Lothar Zagrosek and Kwamé Ryan; Ilia in Idomeneo for Danish National Opera; Susanna in Figaros bröllop with Gothenburg Opera in a Swedish translation of Le nozze di Figaro; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at Confidencen, and Despina in Così fan tutte at Folkopern, both in Stockholm; Papagena at Drottingholms Slottsteater, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos at Grand Théâtre de Genèveunder the direction of Jeffrey Tate. Most recently she has appeared as Romilda in Xerxes with Den Nye Opera under Lars Ole Mathiasen and Clélie in Aeneas i Cartago for Konzerthaus Berlinunder Lothar Zagrosek.

Klara Ek has performed Mozart Lieder in recital for the Musashino Cultural Foundation in Tokyo, and made her Wigmore Hall debut singing Haydn arias with the Classical Opera Company. She has performed songs by Lehar and Zeller under Gunther Bauer-Schenk with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

The 2008-2009 season included a New Year's Day gala concert with RTÉ National Symphony under Christopher Warren-Green, Mozart concert arias with Orchestra della Toscana under Hubert Soudant, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) under Walter Weller and also with Singapore Symphony under Lan Shui, Haydn's The Seasons with International Bach Academy Stuttgart, G. Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Orchestre National de Lille under Jean-Claude Casasdesus; Israel in Messiah and The Creation with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra with The Creation under Helmuth Rilling

Klara Ek is much in demand by the principal early music ensembles with whom she has performed in many of Europe’s major venues. With Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco she has recorded Jommelli’s Ezio, Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tolomeo e Alessandro, and G.F. Handel’s Berenice. With the Academy of Ancient Music she has sung the roles of Oriana in Amadigi di Gaula under Christopher Hogwood and Arminda in La finata giardiniera under Richard Egarr; and she has collaborated with Pablo Heras-Casado and Compañía y Orquesta Barroca de Aranjuez in the first modern performance of Bonno’s L’isola disabitata.

“Klara Ek's blazing, impetuous Berenice is worth every one of those five stars on its own.” - Tim Ashley, The Guardian